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about the fame time as the former, btit never pro- 

 duces fruit in England. 



The third fort grows naturally in India, ant! alfo in 

 fome parts of the Spaniih Weft Indies^ from whence I 

 received the feeds j this rifes with a woody ftem t(>' 

 the height of twenty feet, fending out many branches^ 

 toward the top, garniflied with long fpear-fhaped 

 leaves, "which are rounded at their ends ; they arc 

 thick, fucculent, and, on their upper fide, of a lu- 

 cid green, having feveral tranfverfe nerves from the 

 midrib to the fide ; on their under fide they are of 4 

 paler green. The flowers are produced at the end of 

 the branches, ftanding on long foot-ftalks, each fuf- 

 taining two or three flowers flaaped like thofe of the 

 other fpecies. 



Thefe plants may be propagated from their nuts, 

 which muft be procured from the countries where 

 they grow naturally ; thefe Ihould be put into fmall 

 pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a hot- 

 bed of tanners bark in the fpring, and treated in the 

 lame manner as other tender exotic feeds, giving them 

 now and then a little watei* to promote their vegeta- 

 tion. When the plants are come up about two inches 

 high, they fhould be tranfplanted each into a fepa- 

 rate pot, filled with light fandy earth, - and plunged 

 again into a hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving to 

 ftiade the glafl^es in the heat of the day, until the 

 plants have taken new root •, they muft alfo be fre- 

 quently refreflicd with water, but it muft not be 

 given in too large quantities. As the fummer ad- 



leaves and tranfverfe nerves. Manghas ladlefcens, fo- 1 vances, thefe plants (hould have air admitted to them 

 liis Ncrii craflis veriofis,- Jafmini flore, frudu Perfici j in proportion to the warmth of the feafon*, and when 

 fimili vehen'^lfb.' Buhti. Zeyl. 150. tab. 70. 



CERBER A. Lift; G^h. Plant. 160. Thevetia. Lki. 



Hort. Cliff. 76. Prod. Leyd, 413. Ahouai. Tourn. 



Inft. R. H. 657. tab. 434, 



The Characters are, 



■ ^he en^alcment is cmpofed of fi'oe fharp-f muted ka^UeSy 



' <ivhi^b fp'ead open and fall aiv ay, Thefloiver is of one 



leaf ftmnel'fhdpedy having a long tube fpread open at the 



top^ 'xhere it is divided into five large obtufe fegmnts^ 

 ftanding oblique to the fnouth of the tube j // haih five 

 " ftaminafttuatedin the middle of the tube^ which are ter- 

 minated by erea fummits \ thefe fi and do fe together. In 

 the center isfitmted a romdifh germin^ fupporting afhort 

 fiyky crowned lyaftigfHd in form of a head. The ger- 

 men afterward becomes a large^ fl^py-* roundifh berry^ 

 with a longitudinal furrow on the fide^ dividing it into 

 two cells y each containing a Jingle ^ large, compre^dnut. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft leftion of 

 Linnasus's fifth clafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia, 



the flower having five ftamina and one ftyle. 



The Species are, ' 



Cerbera {Ahouai) foliis ovatls. Lin. Sp. Plant, 208. 

 Cerbera idth oval leaves. Ahouai. Thevet. Antarft. 

 66. Tourn. Inft. 658. The Jhotiai. - « 



Cerbera {Thevetia) foliis linearibus, longiffimis, 

 confertis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 209. Cerbera with voj long 

 7iarrow leaves growing in clufters. Ahouai Nerii folio, 

 flore luteo. Plum. Cat. 20. Ahouai with a Rofe-bay 

 leaf, and a yellow flower. 



, Cerbera (Manghas) foliis lariceolatis, nervis trahf- 

 verfalibus. Flbr. Zeyl. 106. Cerbera with fpear-Jhaped 



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they have filled thefe fmall pots with their roots, they 



The firft fort grows naturally in the Brazils, and alfo ]■ Ihould be turned out and tranfplanted into other pots 



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of a larger fize, but they muft not be too large j for 

 the roots of thefe plants ftiould be confined, nor fhould 

 the earth in which they are planted be rich, but a 

 light fandy foil is beft for them -, after they are new 

 potted they fliould be plunged into tht hot-bed attain, 

 obferving to water them now and then, a$ alfo to ad- 

 mit air under the glaflTcs every day in proportion to 

 the v^armth of the feafon. When the plants are grown 

 about a foot high, they fliould have a larger fharc 

 of air, in order to harden them before the winter, 

 but they ftiould not be wholly expofed to the open 

 air. In the winter thefe plants ftiould be placed in a 

 warm ftove, and during that feafon they Ihould have 

 very little water given to them, elpecially in cold 

 weather, left it fliould rot their roots. In the fol- 

 lowing fpring thefe plants ftiould be ftiifted again into 

 otlier pots, at which time you ftiould take away as 

 tritich as you conveniently can of the old eardi from 

 thei'f rbots, arid afterwards cut off' the decayed fibres ^ 

 then put them into pots filled with the fame light fan- 

 ^y earthy and plunge them into the bark-bed again, 

 for thefe plants will not thrive well unlefs they are 

 cdnftantly kept in tan : and as they abound with 

 milky juice, they ftiould be fparingly watered, for 

 they are impatient of moifture, efpecially during the 



winter feafon, 



Whtn by any accident the tops of thefe plants are 

 injured, they frequently put out flioots from their 

 roots, which, if carefully taken up and potted, will 

 make good plants, fo that they "may be this waypro- 



^agated. 

 RCIS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 458. Siliquaftrum. Tourn. 

 Inft. R. H. 646. tab. 414. The Judas-tree, in French 

 'Guainier. - -^ . ■ ■ 

 ' The Characters are, 

 Thefe, when j^oung, are covered with a green fmooth | It hath afhort bell-fhaped empalement of one leaf, which 



^ ' ' •fs convey: at the bottom, and full of honey liquor ; at the 



. top it is indented in five parts. The flower hath five 

 petals, which afe inferted in the empalement, and greatly 

 refembles a pctpilionaceous flower. The two wings rife 

 itttd'be Iheftandard, and are reflex ed % the ftandard is of 

 cite roundifh petal, and the keel is compofed of two pet ah y 

 in form of a heart, which inclofe the parts of genera- 

 tion. It hath ten diftin5l ftamina, which decline, four 



■ ' in the Spanifli Weft Indies in plenty •, and there are 



'- Yohie of the trees growing in the Britifli iflands of A- 



itterici ; this rifes with an irregular ftem to the height 



of eight or ten feet, fending out many crooked dif- 



fufed branches, which toward their tops are gamiftied 



with thick fucculent leaves about three inches long, 



' and near two broad, of a lucid green, fmooth, and 



' veiy full of a milky juice, as is every part of the 



fhrubs. The BbWefs come out in loofe bunches at 



'- the end of the branches, of a cream colour, having 



long narrow tubes at the top cut into five obtufe feg- 



ments, which feem twifted, lb as to ftand oblique to 



' the tube; theft fpread open,, and have the appearance 



• of the flowers ot Oleander, tt flowers in July and 



' Auguft, but never produced fruit in England. The 



'wood of this tree ftinks moft abominably, and the 



kernels of the nuts are a moft deadly poifon ; fo that 



' the Indians always caution their children againft eating 



therti, for they know of rib iantidote to expel this poi- 



' fori\ ridV will any of them ufe the wood of this tree 



for fuel, Weft they take the kernels out of the ftiells, 



into which ' they piit fmall ftoncs, then bore a hole 



through edel\' flieJl, arid ftring ifierii ; thefe they tie 



'■ about thehrlcgs to dance with, as the morris-dancers 



life bells. . ' . '- ;■.'■"• ' 



The fecohct fort grbws naturally in the Spanifh Weft 



Tridies, dhd alfo in feme of the French iQainds in A- 



merica, and hath lately been introduced into the Bri- 



tifti iflands, from whence F received the feeds by the 



title of French Phyfic Nut ; bbt how it came by that 



appellation, I Cannot imagine, becaufe there is another 



lant which grows common there, and has paffed un- 

 er that title many years. V/'' . - . - • 



This rifes with a roitrtd ftalk aboiit thefariielieight 

 as the former, dividing trpward into many branches. 



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, but as they grow older, the bark becoriief roi/gh, 



but changes tt a gray or Afli-colour. The leaves are 



four or five inclies long, and half an inch broad in 

 the middle, ending ih iharppdirits, of a tucid green, 

 and cdrtitfcut iri'ckffters Witriout order, "ind are full 

 of a milky juice, which llows out when they are 

 broken, ■ The floweris come out from the fide of the 

 branches Uf)dn loh'g fbot-ftalks, ^ach fupporting two 

 or three yellow flowers ^ith lon& tubes, fereading 



open in the fame manner as the former. K flowers 





of Ivhich are longer than the reft,a,nd are terminated by 

 cl^long incumbent fummits. ft hath a long flender ger- 



